CNN Money - The new dolls from Mattel have a more active play component. For example, when Barbie’s cell phone rings and you raise it to her ear, she actually answers the phone and speaks. The dolls sing into a microphone and each version features three pre

Around the Markets: European phone stocks gain on dividends as
Herald Tribune - PARIS: European telephone companies have become stock market favorites this year by paying dividends as high as those of utilities, one of the big winners in 2006. “Telecom stocks are the new utilities,” said Philipp Musil, who oversees investments

Cool Stuff: Your 2006 Holiday Gift Guide
Computerworld - C’mon, if you’re going to give somebody a cell phone or smart phone as a present, make it a cool one. Here are today’s hottest phones and a couple of mobile headsets that will do them justice. Cell phone: Helio Drift The new Helio Drift slider phone

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Taxpayers can claim a one-time refund for excise taxes paid on landline, cell phone, Voice over Internet Protocol or bundled service billed from March 2003 through July 2006. (The excise tax on local calls is still in effect.) The standard refund is

ACT Teleconferencing Announces AT&T Contract Extension
Forbes - Offering the highest-quality attended and unattended conferencing services via either VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) or PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network), the platform tightly integrates the latest audio, web and video technologies. “We

ABI Research Forecasts 267 Million Residential Voice over IP
Forbes - Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone services, which last year counted less than 38 million subscribers worldwide, should have a subscriber base of over 267 million in 2012, according to a new study released by ABI Research. “Hosted service

Airspan Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRN), aleading worldwide provider of WiMAX-based broadband wireless accessnetworks and carrier class Voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP) solutions,today announced that Eric Stonestrom, CEO, and David Brant, CFO, will bepresenting at the Needham & Company Needham 9th Annual Growth StockConference.

Airspan Announces New US$2.3 Million Service Contract With Yozan Inc. 
Following the recent announcement of itssuccessful completion of the Yozan Japan network optimization program,Airspan Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: AIRN) today announced that it has enteredinto a new service agreement with Yozan for the continuing optimization androllout of the network.